AGRICULTURAL NEWS - Sussex stud breeder and qualified chartered accountant Linden Hewson admits that when 10 pregnant stud cows were slaughtered by stock thieves in the space of three months in 2002, he considered emigrating.
He was deterred, however, by his long-held love of farming beef cattle, and his determination to continue improving his stud on his 130ha family farm of Grey Maclean, near East London.
Linden’s beef initiative has its roots in a few crossbred heifers he received from his father, Mellie, while still in pre-primary school. It triggered a lifelong passion that is today exemplified by a stud which produced one of the country’s finest Sussex cows (LJ 06 0209), with an ICP of 359 days over 10 calves.
